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LL ORGANIZED
FORCES SEEN TO HAVE
STRONi ORGANIZTION
A IN EVERY COUNTY
'Spporters of Governor Are Aigned
tn a. Compact Line of Committees
and Are Doing All They Can to
Eect Governor and Those Whom
He Intends to Support.
That State Senator W. H. Sharpe
f Lexington County is the State
chaiman of the Blease organization,
n- John' . Aull, private secretary
the Governor, the secretary of the
"Ifg-nzation, is the information fur
Ited the Pee Dee Daily of Bennett*
e'by Col. J. P. Gibson of Ben
ettallle, la -member of the staff of
p.oBlease. and secretary of the
se organization in Marlboro
ty.
Mr. Gibson gives the Blease com
en in the townships of Marl
county, and it is said that a
.organization has been per
of the Blease forces in every
Inthe State. If this is true,
. lease has an organization ex
to each school district im
one iof the forty-four counties,
able, as be has frequently
touch any locality at a
a e i~ardof Col. J. Preston Gibsoi
Pee Dee Daily says in part:
Freeman: In your yesterday'i
a) Daily you editorially offer
.16w a, reward of five dollars tc
for the names of the' Stat(
~miicommittee and the names o1
Tdri aad secretary in Marlbort
athad the names of the town
ennmmttees in this county. Wi
taid or ashamed for name.
bished, .for we feel that w4
litgood as any people who wal
We'are Democrats and a4
as anybody. The following
desired:
4chairman, W. H . Sharpe
nOr from Lexington county;
- )cretary, J. K. Aull, the gov
w ptvate secretary."
~vwng the members of thi
- ease ~organization, - Mr
ses his nmmunication al
' :=3aneditorial-in his paper o:
LR. L. Freeman says
nDailhas accomplished ar
feat, and scooped the paper
State In securing a lis
-and committees of th4
_.organlzation. When th4
-cnferences were held in Co
veral weeks ago, the news
ieporters in Columbik coul
ecare any informaton as t
done. Those who attendet
ba oysters when asket
tenewspaper men.
Eno transpires that officer:
~ b~e iselected for the State or
-and county chairmen ant
- appointed. But it has re
* 1rthe Daily -to unearth thi:
ertrfor th-Diy- n
VoLGibson would no doub
lvnus this Information Ioni
-h it not been thie purpose te
- te information from the pres
~p~~.But oug discovery an:
- of .Mr. Aull's letter. to
- .wth ur gentle goarding and
ofthe $5, has had the desir
~t has gievn us ascoop fo:
~~any live newspaper would havy
- iiid?$5. We would be glas
2aee~ti newspapers in other cosn
a dreY.'and publish the officer
immttees of the Blease organi
In their respective counties.
n helthe Blease conference too
In Columbia on the eve of th<
of the campaign it was held
~the Supreme Court room frorx
the newspaper men were bar
it was known at the time tha
- n- Sharpe presided over the
Sbut the only informatio1
.aealabewas just what could be pick
'ei up ere and there and put togeth
ior no statement was given out t<
~-the press. In fact, at no time was
-itlere ever any offcial knowledge tha
5ckconferences were being held.
-' t has aready been printed that al
rgn zan of the Blease forces hat
ee ormed in every county with
~cnrlor State organization in Co
~li~;that such and such men were
*2hte eorganization and that a count:
chimnIn each county had beei
'nmdand-meetings of the adminis
t ation- followers organized in every
<conaty, but remained to absolutel:
confirra the names of the Bleas
State chairman and secretary.
There is no douit that the Statt
- dministration has organized or at
'tmtdto organize in each co~unty
- ~was known that in Georgetowr
Scopaty a caucus of the Blease forces
~-,as held following the speakIng of
~,~e candidates for State offces there
a'gd it was openly reported that the
caucus had agreed to support Johi
G. Richards for governor and the
-'-Bleiase ticket right down the line.
d'his 'was said to have been the same
-method followed In Williamsburi
'county, where, however, the Blease
forces are in a hopeless minority.
'Georgetown is going to be close, for
the Bleasites are well organized there
and have control of the county execu
tive committee.
It Is also interesting to recall in
this connection that W. C. Irby Jr.,
In his speech following the LexIng
ton meeting, I believe it was at Sa
luda, attacked Mr. W. H. Sharpe, the
Lexington Senator'who Is the State
chairman of the Blease forces, for
helping to hold up the two-cent rate
in the last general assembly, and~
stated that Mr. Sharpe is supporting
Mr. Richards for governor.
Mr. Irby had made plain his inten
tion -of not being left "out in thie
cold", and he as well as Mr. C. C.
Simms and Mr. J. B. A. Mullally are
friends of Gor. Blease, just as Mr.
John G. Richards. It is going to be
a pretty fight to see which lands the
support of the Blease organization,
for while the governor has declared
he will not take a hand In the first
race .it is obviously impossible for
him to keep his followers from cen
tering on one man if they so desire.
It was reliably reported that t'he
Blesse men in Georgetown and Wil
,iamsburg agreed on Mr. Richards for
governor and that other counties
IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH IS TO
3LAE WAR ON PELLAGRA.
State Health Officer Hayne Says Dis
ease is Most Serious Menace to
Good Health.
At the recent quarterly meeting of
the State board of health, the pella
gra situation was declared to be the
most serious health problem of South
Carolina. It was determined by the
assembled doctors to make a practical
survey of pellagra conditions in the
State with the intention of suppress
ing and eradicating the insidious dis
ease.
Dr. A. J. Hayne, State health offi
cer, had the following to say as to
the pellagra situation: "Pellagra is
at present the disease that is giving
the State board of health more trou
ble than any other health condition
in the State. From the following it
may be seen that a pellagra survey
of the State is very necessary.
"For the month of June 87 cases
have been reported to the board from
23 counties out of the 48. In the re
maining counties the disease is prac
tically as prevalent as within the re
ported districts. The counties report
ing pellagra are Abbeville, Anderson,
Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Char
leston, Cherokee, Chester, Chester
field, Darlington, Dorchester, Fair
field, Florence, Greenville, Green
wood, Horry, Kershaw, Laurens, Lex
ington, Newberry, Marlboro. Orange
burf, Richland, Spartanburg, Union
and York.
"What percentage of pellagrins re
siding within these counties has been
reported? The case of Laurens coun
ty may furnish some idea. From the
entire county two cases were report
ed tothe State board of health. In
the town of Clinton, with a popula
tion of about 4,000 souls, an inten
sive pellagra survey, conducted by
Dr. Jos. F. Siler, of the Thompson
McFadden pellagra commission, now
working in Spartanburg county; Dr.
A. E. Vipond of Montreal, Canada,
and Dr. T. L. W. Bailey, local board
of ,health secretary for Clinton, re
vealed 98 cases of pellagra, wet and
dry varieties.
"In the past three months ten
deaths have occurred in Clinton as
the result of pellagra, nine of the
fatalities being the. case of married
women, their ages varying from 21 to
58 years, and the duration of the dis
ease from three months to four years.
The pellagra situation in Clinton is
not exceptional in South Carolina.' It
is merely cited, because the field has
been thoroughly surveyed by able
men. During his three years of work
In Spartanburg county Dr. Siler has
reported 800 cases of pellagra in that
district"
Dr. Hayne said that the people ad
vise with their candidates for the
. State assembly and prevail upon them
to appropriate funds for a proper
state survey for pellagra; that cases
may be found; that their severity
may be reported on; that the prob
-ability of its spread may .be dealt
, with, etc.
:"Lest the b~ublic become too alarm
Sed," said Dr. Hayne, "I am glad to
state that the death resulting from
, pellaga Is exaggerated frequently. It
tis probably not more than 5 per cent.
SAside from the mortality viewpoint
Swe are facing a far worse situation
Bin actual pellagra conditions than in
ithe possible appearance of the bu
- bonic plague."
GOOD IsOADS PLANS.
Re1port on Measure for Great Im.
B provement of Highways.
-A favorable report on Senator
Bryan's good roads .bill, a substitute
Sfor the Shackleford bill already pass
Sed by the House, was completed Mon
jday by the Senate committee on post
Soffices and post roads.
Under the Bryaat bill the Federal
tgovernment would issue fifty-year
Sthree per cent. bonds to the amount
1of $500,000,000 in lots of $100,000,
-000 each for five years. Before
-states could participate in the funds
Sthey would be required to issue an
Bequal amount of four per cent. bonds
Swhich, when deposited in the treas
ury department, would be exchanged
for cash. The one per cen' dfference
would make up a sinking fund to aid
the states in retiring the bonds
Creation of a federal highway'com
mission to supervise the expenditure
rof highway funds is a feature of the
bill. The commission would be coin
posed of'the chairman and members
of the Senate and House committees
on roads, the director of the office of
public roads, and a United States
army officer.
CHTT-DRE. IN MILLS.
State Factory Inspectors Give Statis
tics on Cotton Mill Help.
A glance at the report of the in
spectors sent out by the State depart
ment of agriculture to inspect the cot
ton mills shows a decrease of 872
white males, while there has been an
increase of 23 white females, 376
negro males and 46 negro females.
Though there has been an Increase
of 163,108 spindles and 1.830 looms
it is noted that there has been a de
crease in the total number of opera
tives of 427. These figures would in
dicate that the mills are installing
modern labor-saving machinery, and
that there is a further tendency to
change from coarse to fine goods.
With this increase in spindles there
has been a gradual increase in chil
dren between the ages of 14 and 16
years. an increase of 51 white boys
and 104 white girls, and an increase
of 17 negro boys and 10 negro girls.
Between the ages of 12 and 14 years
we find an increase of 126 white boys
and 56 white girls, with an increase
of 6 negro boys and 6 negro girls.
Dealt With as Criminals.
A telegram received at Los Ange
les purporting to be official message
from Carranza says all who took an
active part in the assassination of
Madero will be dealt with as crimi
nals.
Air Reservoir Explodes.
The air reservoir of a Gaffney
manufacturing plant exploded Tues
day with a loud report, and blew up
part of two floors, but no .livies weret
POINTS OUT HANGER
VOTE AUINST AD INISTRATION
IS BADLY SPLIT
ILEASITES TO LINE liP
--4
Anti-Blease Candidates Are so Num
erous That Minority of Votes May
Place Two Supporters of Governor
in Second Primary-Votes Badly
Split Up.
That centralization of the anti-ad
ministration forces on some one anti
Blease candidate for governor has be
come imperative in order to assure
the ultimate election of an anti
Blease governor, is the opinion of J.
A. Daly, who says a devolpment of
last week in the campaign for State
offices was contained in statements
of several anti-administration candi
dates regarded as leaders of that fac
tion. With~ut reserve It was admit
ted by one candidate of this faction
that such a condition is necessary to
prevent two Blease candidates for
governor entering the second pri
mary.
The claim that he is the logical
candidate around whom the combined
forces opposing the administration
should gather has been individually
advanced by several candidates for
governor. Considerable doubt is,
however, expressed that such an
agreement can be perfected. Blease
support candidates for governor con
tinue to assert that two of them will
make the second race unless the anti
administration forces combine and
center their strength on one candi
date.
In discussing the' probability of
such a coaliting, anti-administration
candidates pointed out that thoughts
of the formation of such a combina
tion can not be taken as an admis
sion of particular strength of the ad
ministration forces. They admit the
Blease faction has a strong minority,
which, It is believed, will be princi
pally divided between John G. Rich
ards of Kershaw, now regarded as
possibly the leading Blease supporter
in the race for governor, and Willam
C. Irby Jr., of Lourens and Charles
Carroll Simms of Barnwell.
While this unknown vote of the
admittedly solid Blease faction will
be divided between these three Blease
candidates, the anti-administration
supporters In the rac e for governor
admit that their faction's vote will
be divided between at least seven
candidates. Arguing in this man
ner, they declare that coalition of the
strength of the several anti-adminis
tration candidates is necessary to in
sure success for their faction.
Developments of the past several
weeks in the State campaign have in
dicated that John G. Clinkscales of
Spartanburg, candidate for governor,
whose strength lies principally in his
stand for State-wide compulsory edu
cation, has been placed in a "faction'
by himself. The more or less mild
attacks directed at Clinkscales by
both anti-administration and admin
istration candidates for governor are
generally taken as indicating an in
crease in strength.
These attaeks on Clinkscales fron
his several opponents would possibly
indicate that he has, in a way, beer
"outlawed" from the strict inti-ada
ministration faction on account of
his comparatvely radical view he
holds on the compulsory education
question. This Issue, it Is felt by
some of the anti-administration sup
porters, would make Clinkscalesa
weak candidate should he enter the
second primary.
In opposition to this tendency .0:
the Ciinkscales advocacy of the State
wide compulsory education iissue,
there i.s known to be developing
among some of the anti-administra
tion supporters a movement seeking
to center on Richard I. Manning of
Sumter, the support of the* anti-ad
ministration men, whom, they argue,
would be a strong candidate in the
second primary because of his advo
cacy of local optional compulsory ed
ucation, which, they say, would make
Manning a desirable candidate ir
counties where compulsory educatior
is strongly supported and unobjec
tionable in counties where cormpul
sory education Is disapprov'ed.
While no candidate expressing his
views regarding this now indefinite
proposal has declared opposition to
such a movement, still the claim of
each that he is the logical man for
selection as the center of the comnbi
nation foretells a great difficulty to
be overcome before an intro-factional
agreement can be reached by the anti
Blease candidates and their support
ers.
Facing a possible similar intra-fac
tional agreement between the three
leading Blease candidates for gover
nor, some anti-administration candi
dates hint at the probable failure of
any combination, though they do not
make that definite assertion.
Throughout the entire party there
is yet held a noticable desire on the
part of each candidate to fight his
own battles and abide by the result
of the balloting in the first primary,
despite recent political developments.
The three Blease candidates in the
race for governor each claim he will
be in the second primary with another
of the Blease candidates, and they de
clare the election of an administra
tion supporter as governor in as
nearly assured as Is possible In a
campaign so split as the present cam
paign.
With three more meetings In the
coastal plain between the campaign
ers are the coming fights in the Pied
mont region, where they say lies the
balance of political power, the candi
dates for State offices are now specu
lating as to the results there of the
political developments of the last
eighteen months.
Through the first five weeks of the
State campaign, a general desire to
erase factional lines and bring about
n clear-cut discussion of the issues
has been repeatedly expressed by an-*
i-administration candidates for gov
ernor. It is generally thought that
this concerted action has a veiled
purpose. A;'-ninist'ation candidates
'!aim that eliminat-n of factional
smn would result in greater benefit for
he anti-administration forces, offer
ng their exulanation of this effort.
rhe administrtion candidates de
lare they desire the erasure of frjc
onal lines only because thiey believeq
FLAY HIM AGAIN
(Continued from first page.) f
Bleaseism would be impossible," said
the speaker, and a bunch of about
fifty wearers of the red badges stand
ing on the right of the stand again
began their howling tactics and Sher
1ff Owings said to them, "You keep
quiet over ther. We have our own
people to do our hollering."
Mr. Pollock roused the ire of the
Blease men by telling them that when
Gov Blease served in the general
assembly he never introduced any
"Jim Crow" car bill while he, Pol
lock, had one enacted into law. He
again referred to the governor serv
ing as a trustee of the negro State
college, and asked why he hired a
negro, Harrison Neely, for his chauf
feur when a white boy wanted the
place? When Mr. Pollock said Gov.
Blease would be defeated and began
reading his parody on "Old King
Cole" the 'Blease men broke into
jeers, and so great was the noise that
he could scarcely be heard.
He said he was not in the race to
help either Smith or Blease. "Go
ing to help him," shouted a red-badg
ed man in the crowd. "If so, you'd
hear what I had to say, but you won't
listen because you know it's blister
ing him and you," replied Mr. Pol
lock, while the crcw,'d again jeered.
He attacked the governor for leaving
the stand as soon as he finished
speaking and said, "His record is so
bad he can't stand it." His last shot
at the yelling crowd was:
"God Almighty hates a quitter and
brave men are generally willing to
stand up and take their medicine."
Cheers from a large part of the crowd
greeted Mr. Pollock when he quit,
while the Blease followers made their
disapproval known by jeering and
shouting for their champion.
United States Senator E. D. Smith
was received with applause and said
he had no apologies for working for
the farmer for the last five and one
half years.
"That's the man Blease has got to
beat," shouted one from the side of
the hill "Man he'd like to :beat, but
by gun can't do it," promptly replied
the senator, while his friends ap
plauded. A bunch of men wearing
red badges, standing on the right side
of the stand, and said to have been
made up of people from Anderson,
Greenville and Greenwood, kept up
such a din that Senator Smith said it
was unfair for a handful to keep the
crowd from hearing him, and Chair
man Browning and the sheriff suc
ceeded in quieting the disturbers.
"I propose to stay up law, order
and decency," said the senator, stat
ing that he had not come up by pull
ing down others.
"I have fought for the rights of
those who produce the wealth of the
world," he exclaimed. He told of his
work which got the government to
experiment with cotton grades, and
of a bill pending providing for the
establishment of the government
standardized grades of cotton and for
a license for all buyers and exporters
of cotton which would insure the use
of. these grades and save the farmers
lots of money on their cotton.
"Go on," yelled the crowd when
the chairman notified Senator Smith
that his time was about up. He said
he never ran over time. The senator
told of his work for the farmers and
his efforts to get them their rights
and to protect- them from gamblers
in Wall street. He denounced as in
famous a report that he was not keep
ing faith on the immigration bill and
saying he believed in "America for
the Americans", and would work with
all his might for the passage of the
immigration bill.
"In spite of the world, the flesh
and the devil I am going back to the
Senate," he exclaimed, closing amid
many cheers.
WED'S FIAN'CE'S EIVAL.
Georgia Girl Runs Off From Man She
Was to Marry.
The romance of Florence Martha
Pickard, daughter of the Rev. Dr. W.
L. Pickard, the new President of
Mercer University, who eloped from
Savannah, Ga., last Friday 'with her
old sweetheart, Everett Harrison, of
Halifox, N. S., while her announced
fance, Karl Gustav Karsten, was on
his way from London to wed- her,
ended sadly in New York after a
honeymoon of four days.
The mother of the girl has received
a l.etter saying she wants to come
home. The information was hardly
sufficient to determine whether she
had hgep abandoned by her husband
or whether she has merely grown dis
satisfied with her choice. Announce
ment of the engagement of Miss
Pickard to Mr. Karsten was made
July 12. The marriage was to have
taken place July 28, at the First Bap
tist church of Savannah.
On the day the engagement was
announced Harrison arrived in Sav
annah and visited Miss Pickard. Ife
was said to have been engaged to her
once. Within five days Miss Pickard
eloped with him. Karsten reached
Ameries on the same day.
STARVED WIFE.
Wet Vi-ginia Farmer Said to Have
Dug Grave Before Death.
Samuel Cuuningham, a farmer. re
poted to be wealthy, is in the county
jail at Parkersburg, W. Va., Tuesday
awaiting a hearing on charges made
by J. E. Mayhew, State humane agent,
charging first degree murder. May
hew charges that Cunningham starv
ed his wife, Anne Cunningham, to
death. It is alleged in the warrant
that Cunningham not only failed to
provide his wife with food for twelve
days prior to her death, last Friday,
but that he purchased a coffin three
weeks ago and began digging a grave
, week ago.
elopment and advancement of the
State
Despite these pleas, a partisan ten
sity is noticable at every meeting,
though the lines are apparently far
less closely drawn than in 1912.
hether or not this continued plead
ing for elimination of factionalism is
responsible for the marked quietude
at the campaign meetings is a mat
ter of personal opinion and of con-I
lderable doubt.
Killed by Pitched Ball.
J. T. West, aged 21, of Richmond,
Va., was killed Tuesday by .being
struck by a pitched ball in a base- r
ll game..
COAL RATES FIXED
OUTHERN POL ' ARE BOTTLED
UP, SAYS DULANEY.
tccording to West Virginia Operator
Pennsylvania Powers Try to Push
Traffic Away From Charleston.
In his testimony at Washington
donday before the Senate naval af
fairs committee B. L. Dulaney, one
>f the best known coal operators in
outhwest Virginia, told the commit
tee considering the Tillman resolu
tion regarding shipments of coal to
South Atlantic cities that the South
ern railroad had so manipulated
things that it is now impossible for
that section to ship coal with a profit
to Atlantic cities.
This fixing of high rates, Dulaney
said, was due to the control of the
Southern by directors who had com
paratively little financial interest in
it. Their great interests were in the
coal trusts of Pennsylvania and they
were also in the Northern railroads
and set the rate from their mines to
the seaboard in the North so high
that it was cheaper to ship coal from
Pennsylvania mines to Philadelphia
and then by sea to Charleston than
to ship direct to Charleston from the
Southern mines.
Those responsible for this condi
tion, according to Dulaney, are Geo.
F. Baker, Geo. F. Baker Jr., Elbert
H. Gary, Adrian Iselin, Adrian Ise
lin Jr., Charles Steele of J. P. Mor
gan & Co., E. J. Berwind, president
of the Berwind-White Coal company,
Henry K. McHarg and Grant C.
Schley.
Were the rates on coal from the
Southern fields to Southern poits fix
ed on anything like the basis on
which the rates from the Pennsyl
vania fields to Northern ports, or
from the Pocahontas fields to Norfolk
and Newport News, Dulaney said,
abot 1,000,000 tons a year would be
moved by the Southern railway and
other lines in that section. Putting
it in another way, Dulaney said, $2,
500,000 was taken from the Southern
seiboard to pay for coal brought over
Northern railways and then by barges
or boats which ought to come direct
by rail from the Southern mines.
Dulaney declared that Pennsylva
nia railroad companies entirely domi
nated the rates on coal to the sea
board. He cited reports of the inter
state commerce commission, showing
the control by the Pennsylvania and
the New York Central of the Balti
more & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio,
Norfolk & Western and other North
ern carriers. . He then declared that
the directors of the coal trust,
through their control of the Southern
and other carriers in that section,
were able to stifle competition from
independent coal miners in the South.
As an instance of discrimination
against coal produced by indepen
dents and against the Southern rail
way as a handler of coal, Dulaney
said that on eacb ton of coal hauled
from Alexandria to- Washington over
the bridge -by the Pennsylvania, that
railroad made a charge of 67 cents,
if the coal had been hauled to Alex
andria -by the Southern; .but only 20'
cents if the coal had been hauled to
Alexandria via the Norfolk & West
ern.
NAMES ON ENGINES.,
Southern Bailway to Encourage Pride
Among Its Drivers.
The Southern railway has recently
adopted a novel plan in order to stim
ulate the interest and pride of engi
neers in their engines. It has been
decided to assign each engineer to an
engine and if the locomotive has been
kept in good condition after a certain
number of miles have been covered,
the engineer's name will be printed
on the side of the cob.
It is a well known fact among rail
road men that many engineers take a
personal interest in the upkeep o1
their engines and pride themselves on
the cleanliness and smooth running
order of its varlous parts. Pet names
have often been applied to locomo
tives and it is to reward these men
and to serve as an incentive to others
that the plan of placing their names
on the out~sde of the cabs was ad
vanced by the officials of the road.
President Fairfax Harrison of the
Southern has recently installed a
number of improvements on the road
for the benefit of the employees and
this will likely prove to be one of the
most popular as well as beneficial in
stimulating the interest of the engi
neers in their work.
CANAL RULES
Ships Must Observe Them in Passing
Through Panama.
Rules and regulations for opera
tion and navigation of the Panama
:anal are provided for in an executive
order .iust issued. Generally these
are framed upon the regulations in
force in the Suez canal and the Soo,
though there are new features made
necessary by peculiar local conditions.
One is the limitation of six knots
per hour imposed upon the speed of
vessels in the Culebra cut, and it is
even required that in approaching
turns vessels shall maintain the slow
est speed that will keep their head
vay. In Gatun lake, however, in the
thousand-foot channels, the speed
may be as high as fifteen knots; in
the SO0-foot channels twelve knots,
and in the 500-foot channels ten
knots.
Everywhere else in the waterway.
n Mirafiores lake and locks and in
he entrances to the ports, the six
knot rate prevails. Greatest precau
ions are to be adopted in the pas
sage of vessels containing quantities
f high explosives or inflammable
~argoes to _guard against in jury to
:anal locks or other vessels.
Italian Miner Killed.
After an Italian miner had been
tiled at Meadow Lands. Pa., in a
ifht with constables there was dan-1
ter of an international conflict Tues- 1
lay until the arrival of the sheriff 1
Lnd 30 deputies.1
Resigns Under Fire.
Representative McDermott of Illi
ois, who has been under fire as a
'esult of the Mulhall charges, resign
d his seat Monday.
Marine Dies at Vera Cruz. (
John McDermott, an American ma- F
me at Vera Cruz, was drowned Tues- I
IRIED TO HIT HIM
iREENVILLE B&NKER RESENS
WORDS Of GOV. BLEASE
GREATES TENSE FEELINi
F. W. Norwood, Wealthiest Banker
of His County, Goes for Blease,
But Officers Seize Him While He
Struggles to Reach Blease-Asked
Governor About McIntosh Matter.
While three thousand persons
watched with still breath, expecting
to witness a fisticuff, perhaps the
shedding of blood, one of the leading
bankers of South Carolina, J. Wil
kins Norwood, of Greenville, strug
gled frantically to break away from
a number of men holding him and
personally resent what he considered
an insult offered him by the Gov
ernor of the State. Cole L. Blease,
during the senatorial campaign meet
ing Saturday.
This furnished the only real sen
sation of the campaign so far, and
for a while it seemed impossible to
avert serious trouble. Several offi
cers were seen to reach for their
pistols, but so far as could .be ob
served in the pandemonium that
reigned for several minutes no wea
pon was drawn. Mr. Norwood was
finally overpowered and taken from
the speakers' stand. The situation
was extremely tense, the excitement
and high feeling spreading to the
big crowd around the stand, but for
tunately the incident passed without
any real damage being done.
The trouble started wh'le the gov
ernor was speaking, when Mr. Nor
wood, who was on the stand at the
rear, asked, "How about Dr. McIn
tosh?" The governor replied:
"When I get to Columbia I will'ask
Dr. McIntosh on the stand and then
answer the question, not behind his
back, like a coward like you."
Mr. Norwood then made an effort
to get to Gov. Blease, hurling an
epithet at the executive while ,en
deavoring to break from the half
dozen or more men who seized him.
Sheriff Rector and Mayor Marshall
were also on the stand and appeared
to be using their best efforts to avert
a clash, and perhaps a tragedy. Sev
eral men were heard to make threats
of shooting. The governor remain
ed where he had been speaking, and
by his side were State Detective E. F.
Hammond and several others who,
it was said, were also officers.
Mr. Norwood's question, "How
about Dr. McIntosh?" was prompted
by a statement issued by Dr. J. H.
McIntosh of Columbia, denying that
he had recommended a pardon or
parole for R. A. Richey of Abbeville,
which matter Gov. Blease exhaustive
ly review at the meeting in Ahbe
ville, when he read a statement from
Dr. McIntosh, who had examined
Richey while in the Penitentiary.
In his last statement Dr. McIntosh
declared he not only did not recom
mend the pardon of Richey, but that
he had stated in his first certificate
that he believed Richey was feigning.
After the candidates had spoken
there were many calls for Mr. Nor
wood, who came to the front of the
stand and in simple manner related
his version of the affair, saying that
"If what Dr. McIntosh says is true,
Bease is what we all know him to
be-a dirty, infamous liar." He
then bitterly arraigned the governor,
saying Newberry is the home of the
Gov. Blease and~ Dr. McIntosh, that
"Blease can't go Into the home of
Dr. McIntosh" and the latter "would
not enter the home of Blease".
He said that any educated man
who was supporting Blease was a,
"dirty skunk". He made further re
marks bitterly denouncing the gov
ernor and his followers, saying:
"This fellow Richards running for
governor is a prince of hypocrites."
"I happen to know that." He de
clared every man Greenville in
terested in selling blind tiger liquor
was "tearing his shirt for Blease and
Rector''.
Mr. Norwood is presinent of the
Norwood National Bank of Green
ville and is interested in banks in
other places. He is said to be the
second largest representrative of
banking interests in South Carolina
and is a brother of Joseph J. Nor
wood. the well known banker of Co
lumbia. Greenville has no citizen
more prominent than J. Wilkins Nor
wood and many expressions of re
sentment were heard from Greenville
people that Gov. Blease's reply to
Mr. Norwood was insulting and un
called for.
The crowd was anti-Blease by
three to one, according to County
Chairman M. Mills Mooney, who pre
sided, and of whom the governor
spoke In high praise during his
speech. The meeting began at 1
o'clock. all the twelve cotton mills
around Greenville having closed at
noo, so as many operatives as desir
ed could hear the candidates. Sev
eral hundred of them marched to
the park, where the meeting was
held, .behind the Blease banner, and
when the governor, who spoke sec
Ed. concluded, most of the march
ers left the grounds with him. The
line-up apepared to be the same as
in other cotton mill towns, the farm
ers for Smith, the mill men for
Blease, and there were hundreds of
Earmers present.
Messrs. Jenpings and ?>,llock evi
:lently had many friends in the au
ience. Their speeches were splon
didly received and they were fre
uently applauded. Senator Smith
;poke first. He repeated some of his
otton speech and directed some re
narks on immigration to the mill
orkers. declaring that lie opnio ed
etting down the bars to the riff-: aff
>f Europe to compete with Amerie'n
ahor. He said: "You cotton mill
>oys don't know Ed Smith intimate
y, but by the eternal gods you can't
eep him from working for you if
'ou are of pure American blood."
Dynamite Kills Gang Foreman. 1
While using dynamite at Straw-ji
'erry, preparing for the subsequent 1
uildng of a roadbed for the Caro-li
in.. Atlantic and Western to enter
harleston upon, Gang Foreman 'i
'Tank Rose was killed Friday by the I
remature explosion e'f dynamite us- t
STRIKERS ROUT GUARDS
LFTER ALL-DAY BATTLE RIOT.
ERS FIRE ARKANSAS MINES.
trikers Wreck Plant With Dyna
mite and Apply the Torch-Loss
$200,000.
After a pitched battle between sev
,ral hundred coal miners and their
ympathizers and one hundred guards
it the Prairie Creek mines of he
kiammoth Vein Coal company, near
Fort Smith, Ark., Friday. which end
d in the rout of the ggards. tipples
)f three mines were destroyed by fire
and dynamited. The property dam
age is estimated at $200,000.
So far as can be ascertained no
one was killed or seriously wounded
in the fighting, which began shortly
after daybreak and continued until
late in the day, when the mine
guards retreated after their ammuni
tion was exhausted. Rioters held
possession of the mines for several
hours, wrecking the plants with torch
and explosives.
All Friday night the properties are
deserted. Preparation are being
made to send additional armed men
to. resume occupation of the mines.
County officials went to the scene,
but before they arrived the attacking
party had disappeared.
Friday's rioting was a culmination
of a series of minor disturbances
which have occurred at intervals
since the contract with the United
Mine Workers was abrogated - last
March, and announcement made that
the properties owned by the Bache
Denman Coal company, but under
lease to the Mammoth Vein com
pany, would be operated on an. "open
shop" basis.
In one attack several employees
of the company were badly beaten
after they had been forced, by a mob
estimated to have numbered more
than a thousand men, to withdraw
the fires from the boilers. Last Sun
day night Frogtown, a union min
ing camp a mile distant from Prairie
Creek, was "shot up' and the disor
der was repeated Wednesday night.
Each faction of workmen charged the
other with the responsibility of the
shooting. No one was injured.
At the time of the first outbreak
an Injunction, was secured in the
United States District Court to re
strain the strikers from interference
with the operation of the mines, and
a force of fifty men, under the direc
tion of the United States marshal,
placed on guard. This force was re
called under instructions of Attor
ney General McReynolds, who held
that it was the duty of the State and
county officials to protect the mine
properties.
Last Friday officials of the com
pany applied to United States Dis
trict Attorney Bourlaind to be per
mitted to recruit a co-npany of mn
to be commissioned by the United
States marshal, but under instruc
tions from Washington the company
was not organized, the attorney gen
eral holding to his previous ruling
that the situation should be taken
care of by local authorities. Gov.
Geo. W. Haynes stated that no re
quest had been made to him for
State troops.
WAS INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT,
. P. Gibson Tells of ils Candidacy
in 1880.
From a long statement, containing
much Irrelevant matter, we publish
the following essential statements,
made by J. P. Gibson, in reply to the
display of Mr. Pollock of a ticket
bearing his trame and two negroes as
candidates In 1880. Mr. Gibson
states:
That in 1876 and in 1878 he was a
"red shirt" rider for Hampton, voted
for Hampton and did arduous and
dangerous work to bring about the
Democratic triumph.
That Ii. 1880 he was a candidate
on a white Independent Democratic
ticket for the legislature, along withm
a number of prominent white men,
for various county offices.
That he did not know that his
name was placed on a ticket with
Republicans and negroes until the
day of the election and that It was
without his consent.
That in any address signed by him
self and others on hi. ticket, pub
lished during the campaign, which
he has preserved, It was declared that
they were opposed to the restoration
of radical rule in the State or the
county.
That he can prove that in a speech
-the campaign of 1880 he said
that he was not a Republican leader
and that he would withdraw and help
to elect the nominees of the Demo
cratic convention If the Republicans
put out a county ticket.
That the ticket exhibited by Mr.
Pollock was not the white independ
ent ticket on which he was a candi
date, but the Republican ticket on
which his name was placed without
his knowledge or consent.
ATTACK3 WHITE MAN.
Gaffney Negro is Shot to Death by
Man He Slashed.
While dozens of hurrying pedes
trians, composing the usual Saturday
evening crowd, looked on. Harold
parks, a well known young white
man of Cherokee county. shot and in
stantly killed a negro named Hose
Ioorheal, alias Mose Petty, on one
>f Gaffney's principal thoroughfares.
'he shooting took place about 8
'clock and no shots were fired until
fter the negro had already cut the
white man across the left shoulder.
nflicting a number of painful
rounds.
It is said that the dispute arose
wer the fact that the negro would
iot drive his wagon out of the way
o let the wnite man pass, and when
he two met later in the evening the
rgument. was .renewed. . Heated
ords were heard and then the negro
said to hae seized Mir. Sparks and
ragged him from the door of a store.
ficting the cuts with a large knife.
arks then opened fire with his pis
1 and three bullets took effect in
WILL iO TO COURTS
EFFORTS TO SETTLE NW AVEN
WITHOUT SUIT FILS
WILSON WANTS AION
President Directs Attorney General
McReynolds to Bring Civil Suit for
Dissolution and Lay Facts Before
Grand Jury for Investigation of
"Criminal Aspects".
The long continued effort to un
tangle the New Haven railroad with
out litigation came to-an end Tues
day night, when President Wilson in
a letter to Attorney General McRey
nolds directed the institution of a
Sherman law suit to dissolve the sys
tem and ordered that the "criminal
aspects of the case" be laid -before a
federal grand'lury.
The president's approval of the
course mapped out by the department
of- justice means that the civil suit
will be filed against the New Haven
in the United States court at New
York at once. The attorney general
also immediately will direct United
States District Attorney Marshall at
New York to summon a grand jury,
and the task of laying evidence* be
fore that body on which to ask for
criminal indictments against officers
and directors of the New Haven un
der the Mellen management will be
begun as soon as possible.
How many indictments will be
sought was not divulged but it was
plainly indicated in correspondence
made public that the attorney general
expects to ask for a bill against Chas.
S. Mellen, former president of the
New Haven. The most significant
fact, in connection with the prodeed
ings was said to be a statement which
Mr. McReynolds gave out several
months ago when the interstate com
merce commission -began its New
Haven inquiry.
In the statement the attorney gen
eral. warned the commission that im
munity might be given certain men if
made to testify as to their actions as
directors of the road. The names he
mentioned were: Charles 8. Mellen,
William Rockefeller, George McCul
lough Miller, Charles F. Brooker, Ed
win Milner, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Goo.
F. Baker and Edward -R. Robins.
In addition to directing a suit, the
president in his letter to Mr.McRey
nolds declared that the decision of
the New Haven directors not to keep
their agreement to dissolve peaceful
ly had caused him "the deepest sur
prise and regret", and that their fail
ure "upon so slight a pretext" was
"inexplicable . and entirely without
"justification".
The department's course, he said,
was just, reasonable and efficient, and
should have resulted in avoiding a
suit. Accompanying- the president's
letter, the department made public
correspondence between the attorney
general and the president 'and the at
torney general and President Hustis
of the New Haven.
One of the most interesting phases,
of the correspondence was contained
in the attorney general's letter to
President Wilson, in which there is a
idecided rebuke for the interstate com
merce commission for its action in
subpoenaing Mellen "and perhaps
others of the greatly culpable" with
the possibility of embarrassing the
department by a claim of immunity in
return for their testimony. In this
connection the -attorney general
makes the statement that criminal
prosecutions have b een always in
mind and that there has never been
"the slightest hope that parties guilty'
of criminal violations of the law
would escape."
The letter from the attorney gen
eral to President Hustis made it clear
that the department takes the posi
tion that the New Haven directors
did not live up to their agreement of
last March for a peaceful dissolution
in their refusal to sell' their Boston
& Maine stock, under conditions Im
posed by Massachusetts, and put the
blame for what may follow on the
heads of these directors. .
AIK EN KITLLING
Lee Yann Charged With the Death of
Willie Brown.
The place of Mr. Albert Yaun, in
the Shaw's 1' erk section of Aiken
county, was the scene of a killing on
Saturday night, when Lee Yaun, son
of the former, shot and killed Willie
Brown, a farm hand. There were
only two eye-witnesses to the occur
rence and the testimony of each was
in contrast at the inquest, which was
held by Coroner Spradley Sunday
morning. One. Mr. E. *C. Moseley,
testified that the shooting was justi
fiable homicide and the other claimed
that it was without provocation.
The dead man and Samp Hightow
er, it seems, had been to a frolic in
that neighborhood on Saturday night
and when returning went to the well
at Mr. Yaun's place to get water.
While there they cut a watermelon.
Some claim that Mr. Lee Yaun came
out and asked them where they got
the melon and that the fuss started
over that, and the shooting was in
self-defence. Others claim that Mr.
Yaun stated that he would settle with
Brown and began firing.
READS PARODY.
Pollock Amuses Crow at Pickens at
Governor's Expense
At Pickens Mr. Pollock Friday re
viewed Goy. Blease's record, saying
it contained so many things the gov
ernor could not explain that he
(Blease) would not attempt to do ro.
In connection with the governor's
pardon record the speaker referred to
the pardon of "Portland Ned", and
read a parody on "Old King Cole",
which amused the crowd.
He referred to the appointment on
the governor's staff of J. Preston Gib
son, James Sottile and Edwin Hirsch,
alling them "a sweet bunch" to be
saluted when the governor, "with his
topknot waving," reviews the State
militia. Mr. Pollock read the "Char
eton list", asking the Bleasites pres
ent how they liked being "lined up